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Dr Irene Watson
Dr Irene Watson is currently combining teaching at the Adelaide University Law School and lawyering at the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement, with also an active participation in providing support to her own and other indigenous communities spread across the Australian landscape.
Previously she has served as the Director and also as the chairperson of the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement, from 1986-1991.
Irene has written and spoken extensively both in Australia and abroad on indigenous perspectives on law, culture and justice. In particular her work in the area of advocating for indigenous human rights involved participation with the UN Working Group on Indigenous Peoples from 1990-1994, and her appointment in 1996 by the Chiefs of Ontario, Canada to sit as one of seven indigenous judges on the 'First Nations International Court of Justice'.
Irene received the University of Adelaide Bonython Law School prize, in 2000 for the best-written PhD law thesis, titled 'Raw Law', excerpts of which she published in 2002 in a short history on the colonisation of the lands of her ancestors.
Irene is a member of the Tanganekald and Meintangk peoples, more popularly known as groups within the Ngarrindjeri nation.
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